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Leodmær 11

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Summary

Leodmær 11 held two small estates in south-east Dorset TRE with a combined assessment of just over 1 hide and a total TRW value of 37s 6d (no TRE value for either estate is given in DB).

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Dorset	Phil. ref. 28,7	Vill Afflington	DB Spelling Leodmar	Holder 1066 Leodmær 'of Afflington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger de Beaumont	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.53	1066 Value 0.38	1086 Value 0.38	Confidence E	Map
Shire Dorset	Phil. ref. 55,15	Vill Bere Regis	DB Spelling Leomer	Holder 1066 Leodmær 'of Afflington'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 unnamed wife of Hugh fitzGrip	1086 Subtenant William de Moutiers	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 1.50	1086 Value 1.50	Confidence E	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Profile

It is not entirely certain that the two estates at Afflington and Bere Regis, each assessed at about ½ hide, were in fact held by the same person TRE. Afflington, in the Isle of Purbeck in south-east Dorset, was definitely held TRE by someone called Leodmær, as the DB spelling Leodmar confirms (there is no corresponding Exon entry for this estate). Bere Regis, 12 miles away, was held TRE by someone whose name is spelt Leomer in DB and Leōmærus in Exon (56b2); the macron over the ‘o’ in the Exon spelling indicates a scribal abbreviation, but the omitted letter would normally be ‘m’ (or ‘n’) rather than ‘d’ or ‘t’ (or even ‘f’ or ‘v’) (although cf. Gundhard 2 for a possible parallel). Taken at face value, these spellings point towards the TRE holder of Bere Regis being a Leomær who was not the same person as the Leodmær who held Afflington; furthermore, the two estates had passed to different successors by 1086, which might imply different antecessors.

Nevertheless, the form Leomær can often represent Leodmær and both names were uncommon, the nearest other occurrence of a TRE holder with either name was nearly 100 miles away (although there were instances of Leofmær about 30 miles away), and Afflington and Bere Regis are close enough to each other to have formed part of a single holding. The balance of probability, therefore, is just in favour of regarding the TRE holder of these two small Dorset estates as being the same person, Leodmær 11.